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Phone Unlocking is Now, Like, Super Legal Starting Today

Kellen February 11, 2015 47

Over a year ago, the FCC and the CTIA (organization who represents all of the big wireless carriers) reached an agreement on how each of the big wireless carriers in the US should approach phone unlocking and unlocking requests from their customers. We are...

Jennifer Lopez Partners With Verizon to Launch Latino-focused Viva Movil Network

Kellen May 22, 2013 121

Sooooo, about that Verizon Wireless press event at CTIA. It was for a Latino-focused mobile network that Verizon has partnered with Jennifer Lopez to launch - it's called Viva Movil. It was easily one of the more embarrassing and hilarious (for the wrong...

Live: Verizon’s CTIA 2013 Press Event

Kellen May 22, 2013 254

CTIA 2013 is happening this week in Las Vegas and Tim is there in attendance for one reason, because Verizon scheduled a press event to take place, their first in quite some time. We have no idea what to expect once they take the stage, but you can probably...

NVIDIA Shows Off More Tegra 4i at CTIA, LTE Advanced Speeds Are a Go

Tim May 21, 2013 21

Taking place in Las Vegas this week is CTIA, another annual mobile/tech industry conference much like CES that takes place in January. Some well-known names are attending this year's meetup, companies such as HTC, NVIDIA, LG and Verizon are all in attendance....

Verizon has a Special Announcement to Make on May 22, Any Guesses?

Kellen April 18, 2013 217

Verizon dropped a "save the date" into our inbox this afternoon, asking that we reserve some time on May 22 at CTIA for a "special announcement" from COO Marni Walden. We were actually planning on skipping CTIA this year as the wireless tech conference has...

CTIA to Become Single “Super Mobile Show” in Fall of 2014

Kellen January 2, 2013 5

In somewhat of an expected move, CTIA The Wireless Association, has announced that they will move away from their 2-event yearly mobile series of events in 2014 and instead create one "super" mobile show to kick off the Fall season. In the past, and in 2013 as...

CTIA 2012 Keynote Day 1: Battle of the U.S. Carrier CEOs

Kellen May 8, 2012 20

When I saw that CTIA had booked the 4 CEOs from the top 4 U.S. carriers to get on stage and banter about the industry, I immediately penciled it into my schedule. They ran a similar keynote last year, but with the AT&T and T-Mobile merger still up in the...

CTIA Wireless 2012 Happening This Week in New Orleans, We are Here to Cover It

Kellen May 7, 2012 15

This week, CTIA Wireless 2012 is poppin' off in New Orleans and we are here to cover anything major that comes out of it. Think of this wireless show as a mini-CES that focuses on mobile only, rather than the TV, computer stuff and overwhelming amounts of spam...